At Home with Trevor Smith

South Australian contemporary sculptor and crochet maestro Trevor Smith makes his homecoming to Michael Reid Murrurundi this weekend with a houseful of woven wonders. Titled At Home with Trevor Smith, this vibrant new series immortalises a cornucopia of mid-century domestic icons – from lava lamps, radios and rotary phones to hairdryers, mixers and toasters – reimagining them as evocative, richly embellished soft sculptures in pure wool.

By transforming mass-produced objects into singular works of art and transposing homespun craft to the realm of soft sculpture, Smith upends distinctions between high and low taste with lashings of exuberance, camp irreverence and more than a soupçon of nostalgia, whimsy and wit.

Irrepressibly fun and rich with colour, Smith’s exquisitely crafted sculptures read like a 1950s Women’s Weekly cookbook come to life in fabulous fuzzy forms, stirring halcyon memories of classic suburban interiors and the design-led dreams of a more innocent time.

For enquiries, please email amandamackinaly@michaelreid.com.au